Fourteen year-old Jude Corgan is haunted by his brother's death and shamed by a legacy of poverty and junk heaps. Not to mention the sixteen wrecks that have appeared mysteriously on the Corgan property in the five years since his brother died. They are a mystery Jude must unravel to discover what happened on the night of his brother's crash and lift the curse that hangs over the Corgans' lives. An explosion in the night; blue frosting at a crime scene; and a boy with a strange tattoo who seems to know too much--they are somehow all connected to Jude and the trouble brewing in the mountain...

During the epic breakout from the Chosin Reservoir, Marine Sgt. Mathew Caruso, assigned as a chaplain's assistant, heroically saved the life of Chaplain Cornelius "Connie" Griffin at the cost of his own life. on December 6, 1950. Six days later, in New England, Mathew's son was born. Fourteen months after that, his father's Silver Star was presented to little Danny Caruso in a ceremony that made national headlines. In 1953 the Caruso Memorial Chapel was dedicated at Camp Pendleton. Two years after that, Mathew's remains were repatriated and his brother John, himself a Marine, served as his...